[SOLVED] - Problems with Dropdown and $CBS_DROPDOWN

[Mikeman27294]

Hey everyone, I am trying to make a combo box with which the user cannot edit the contents, like the dropdown from the image below.

The problem is though, that I have tried $CBS_DROPDOWN and that makes no change. Infact, no styles are making any changes to my dropdown box. I have ensured that I have attached the correct include file (ComboConstants.au3) and I get no errors.

I recently installed the most recent release of AutoIT, and I am unsure as to whether this is when the problem started (I rarely use combo boxes) but I am quite sure that it worked properly in one of my older scripts.

Can anybody help?

Thanks.

Edited February 3, 2012 by Mikeman27294

[BrewManNH]

I used this BitOR($GUI_SS_DEFAULT_COMBO, $CBS_DISABLENOSCROLL) as the style of a combo in a project I was working on. It disabled the edit functioning of the combo, but didn't disable the control itself. I can't remember where I found out about this, because the description for that style doesn't say anything about it disabling the control that way.

[Melba23]

Mikeman27294,

You need to use the $CBS_DROPDOWNLIST style - like this:

#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <ComboConstants.au3>

$hGUI = GUICreate("Test", 500, 500)

$hCombo = GUICtrlCreateCombo("", 10, 10, 200, 20, $CBS_DROPDOWNLIST)
GUICtrlSetData(-1, "One|Two|Three|Four|Five")

GUISetState()

While 1
    Switch GUIGetMsg()
        Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
            Exit
    EndSwitch
WEnd

I agree the description in the Help file is not the best - but that is how MicroSoft describe it!

M23

[Mikeman27294]

Sorry BrewManNH, that didn't give me the style I wanted. However, Melba23's suggestion of $CBS_DROPDOWNLIST (Rather than $CBS_DROPDOWN) is ecactly what I am looking for.

Thanks.